₦airaland Forum

wellmax: In the midst of the wise, there will always be one mu.mu

if you are wise then being wise is the new foolishness. olodo.

0lumide: Nice !!!!! Let everyman believe what they want and be supported regardless of creed!!

APC goons. Nice only when its not GEJ or PDP.

How did an agbero become governor

Just days after traditional religion worshippers
in Osun State demanded a two-day public
holiday from the state government to
commemorate this year’s Isese Day, the state
government has declared Tuesday a public
holiday in commemoration of the World
Traditional Religion, Isese Day.
In a press statement released on Monday by
the state’s commissioner for Information and
Strategy, Sunday Akere, the state government
declared the public holiday in the spirit of
equality among the various religious groups in
the state.
A leader of the traditionalists, Awopetu Idowu,
last Friday had asked Governor Rauf Aregbesola
to declare Tuesday and Wednesday this week as
public holidays in the state in celebration of
the Isese Day as a demonstration of the
governor’s commitment for the promotion of
peaceful co-existence and equal right for all
religions.
“Isese Day, among the traditional believers, is
the celebration of the peak of festivity in
Yorubaland tagged Odun Nla, hence were given
the right to celebrate with members of their
families,” Mr. Akere said in the statement.
http://premiumtimesng.com/regional/143081-osun-declares-public-holiday-for-traditional-religion-worshippers.html

How does this wasteful project benefit the common osun individual, these ACN governors and phantom projects

Odenigbo Aroli: May thunder strike you a thousand ft into the ground; who da hell are you ? Whenever you are done run over to Enugu,your home state and tell them what to do,eediot!

who is this basttard? Where did you crawl out from. I a a million times times more Anambrarian that you iddiot. The time is up for you and your fraud master Peter obi. It wont be long before you lose your job as Peter Obi's otimkpu after he has been disgraced out of govt house. You better start looking for a real job fool. May God punished you and your useless generation. Ezi

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If OAM4J actually wrote "Fashola is not a kidnapper" as reason for ban, then I'm done. Everything is on nairaland

ifechez: see ur life. Who cleared who? Am telling u the creteria and u are talking about a non member. Even obaze was disqualified becos he has no Voter's card but today he came to atani and obtained his before jumping in the next available flight to abj from asaba airport. Pls say what you know. Tanx

My Friend, Willy Obiano, the Otunba Atayase of Ilemeso-Ekiti was one of the cleared candidates and he registered with APGA same day as Soludo, I could care less about an oseloka obaze

gymnasium: my dear its not how far but its how well you may call him a world cup illiterate you own your mouth but the closer you come to the pot the better part of the aroma you perceive so support ifeanyi ubah for a brighter and better anambra cum 2013

lol any that thinks sending youth to watch a useless word cup is not fit to be sighted 1000 yards near any govt house.

ifechez: you are pathetic. Are u aware of any Apga rule that says any aspirant must have stayed in the party for more than.a year. You are not even an Apga member and here u are fabricating trash.

Shut up you fool. Soludo joined APGA the same day as Willy Obiano who was cleared. Chuma Nzeriba joined APGA 24 hrs to election in the Senate election

[quote author=one.east4]Everybody chill down. Good news will come soonest. Soludo may still be cleared after all, all these are political intrigues. They are still meeting and deliberating. Probably they will make a public pronouncement afterwards.[/quote]The earlier Soludo leaves these bunch of fools in APGA to another party, the better for him. If they could do this to him during screening then they would do worse in the primaries. Its better he joins another party now than for him to do so after a failed primary. Let me sit here and see how a relatively unknown Willy Obiano who has Yoruba roots will win Anambra election. Peter Obi is the new clown like rochas

mikeansy: Absolutely correct!

Jonathan Goodluck is a very weak and insecure person!

So heartbreaking each time I remember he is President. Why not allow us elect a Governor of our choice so that at least regionally we can at least make progress eventhough Nigeria does not want to make progress.

We should pay him back in 2015. Let us not vote at all. Anyway instead APGA will win without Soludo, let PDP win. APGA is the new monster to be avoided like APC

Peter Obi has stuffed all Anambra money in his bank , boosted the capital base, pockets the interest and goes about telling Anambra people he is saving their money for them. Fraudulent and sadistic human being

Obiagelli: Can we stay on the topic, being conservative is not an attack on the pdp

PDP is anything but conservative, APC is anything but progressive.

Obiagelli: What are the two government's stand (apc and pdp ) on taxation, school fees, Privatisation, state police, decentralising power and so on

ApC stands on over taxation because the owner is a tax collector as against PDP's moderation, APC does not want autonomy of LG against PDP's acceptance, APC wants state police as against PDP etc. APC will be worse govt if they get presidency

Gbawe: First of all, the political ideology Nigerian Parties identify with is never adhered to in a purist manner. Nigerian politics and democracy is evolving yet it is still at a rudimentary level. If I were to rate it from 1 to 10, I would put us at 1.

To that end, looking at ideology , to possibly predict character of a Party, is virtually worthless in my opinion. Better to look at manifesto, as it addresses the specific problems of Nigeria, and then inspect the records of the actual Party members to note the probability of promises being fulfilled. The APC has the better manifesto and better leaders. As simple as that if we are talking factually and not entertaining bias or sentiment.

This chronic liar and jobless propagadist. APC is has the better leaders and manifesto like we see in Akpabio vs Fashola, Chime Vs Ajimobi, Amaechi Vs Kayode right? shameless old propagandist. Get a real job and a life

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if you believe this world cup illiterate has a shot at governing Anambra you should also believe am currently richer than Bill Gates.

berem: So you are the yorubest dude? God don catch you today!

Repungnantly bigoted. Should be banned off nairaland. Mod's should lock this silly thread

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Fool

Governor Peter Obi and the SABmiller Scandal - the issues raised by Chudi Offodile:

1. The President need not go to Onitsha to commission the SABmiller brewery. It would amount to an endorsement of a sordid affair and may embolden other foreigners who design and put into effect, different and newer corruption techniques with government officials.

2. In the history of corruption in Nigeria, the Onitsha brewery scandal will rank as the most brazen.

When I first raised the issue a few months ago, apart from a rain of insults I received from government agents,
3. the Attorney General, Peter Afuba, directed me to the corporate affairs commission to obtain information about the company.

4. But a search at the corporate affairs commission did not yield any information on SABmiller brewery, Onitsha, which is the name the state government repeatedly called the company.

5. The government itself refused to release any information on the ownership of the company except to say that Anambra state invested 2 billion naira for a 10% stake in the SABmiller brewery with “other businessmen”.

6. The identity of the so called ‘other businessmen’ remained a closely guarded secret until I stumbled upon a company, in the records of the corporate affairs commission, called INTAFACT BEVERAGES LIMITED with registration no 680933, incorporated by the firm of Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie.

7. The company has British and South African directors with a nominal share capital of 40,000,000 Naira divided into 400 ordinary shares of 100,000 Naira each.

8. The interpretation clause of the memorandum and articles of association of the company defines ‘state’ as Anambra state government and ‘next’ as Next international limited of Nado House, 98 modebe avenue, Onitsha.

9. The position of Chairman is to be occupied by a Nigerian. The Obi of Onitsha is on the shortlist for the position.

10. 300 of the 400 ordinary shares worth 30,000,000 were allotted to the following shareholders as at April 2011: Sabmiller Nigeria holdings—230 ordinary shares, Anambra state government—40 ordinary shares and Next International Nigeria Limited—30 ordinary shares.

11. Intafact Beverages Limited is the owner of the brewery in Onitsha.

12. Keep in mind, the fact that Next international limited, one of the three shareholders of Intafact Beverages Limited, is owned by Anambra state Governor, Peter Obi and his family.

13. It turns out, that the mysterious ‘other businessmen’ is no other than the Governor himself. Alas, the gods are naked!

14. Part of the land on which the brewery stands in bridgehead, Onitsha, belongs to a company called International Steel Industry Limited, Onitsha. The land was allocated to the company in 1975 by the defunct East Central State government. The company had developed the over 7 acre property and paid ground rent on the property up until 2011.

15. Indeed, the certificate of occupancy was recertified by Governor Obi on the 5th of March, 2010. Yet, Obi went ahead and revoked the right of occupancy of International Steel Co and awarded same to Intafact Beverages Limited, a private company in which he has interest.

16. The land was revoked for “overriding public interest” and re awarded to a private company for “overriding personal interest”. It is illegal to revoke a parcel of land for overriding public interest and grant the same parcel to a private company.

17. It becomes immoral and symptomatic of greed, avarice and a capricious abuse of state power, when the beneficiary of the revocation is the Governor himself.

18. SABmiller, based in South Africa, is said to be the biggest brewery group in the world. Its investment in Nigeria is speculated to be more than a 100 million us dollars.

19. A good deal for Nigeria and Anambra state no doubt.
But it appears that in an attempt to expand its operations in Africa, it has gotten itself entangled in a web of corruption and unethical conduct.
20. Governor Obi personally handled all negotiations between Anambra state government and Sabmiller group and visited South Africa several times on the subject.
21. Did Sabmiller allocate the shares in Intafact Beverages Limited to Next international limited as “bribe” to further its business interest in Nigeria?
22. (a)What did Governor Peter Obi have in mind when he invested 2 billion naira of Anambra state money in a company he has direct interest? (b) What other assets of Anambra state did he contribute on behalf of the state to further his own business interest? (c) Did Next international [Obi’s company] pay for the shares allotted to it in ‘cash or kind’ and how was the payment, if any, effected? (d) What does Governor Peter Obi understand by the oath he swore to, on assumption of office; “that I will not allow my personal interest to influence my official conduct or my official decisions”.

23. To address these questions and more, an international enquiry into the activities of Sabmiller group in Nigeria and the operations of Next International limited and the possible interface of its accounts with that of Anambra state government should commence without further delay.

24. To this end, I shall be forwarding a letter to Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister for Justice, the British government, the government of South Africa and the United States Department of Justice demanding for this investigation.

25. With the investigation that is sure to come, it will not be advisable for the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to be the one ‘commissioning’ the controversial brewery. They may drag the name of the President into their sleazy deal with a claim that the arrangement was approved by the President.
26. Orient Petroleum on the contrary, was set up in a most transparent manner as a private company in 2001. The stake of the Anambra State government in the company is about 3%. It is an indigenous company in almost every sense and proudly so. Its office is in Awka, Anambra State with the board and the management populated by eminent citizens of the state.
27. The rig used in the production process belongs to Casmir Maduafokwa from Anambra State.

28. The storage vessels moored on the banks of Anambra river, into which the crude flows, enabled by a 10 kilometer flow line, belongs to Cletus Ibeto, a category [A] investor in the Orient project who is also from Anambra state.
The ingenuity of our people is on full display. This is despite the antics of a noisy state government seeking to take credit for the efforts and achievements of a private company, that had to construct a 25 kilometre road with its lean resources to enable about 40 trailers navigate the huge rig to the wellhead in Anambra River 1.
I welcome President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan [GCFR] to Anambra state, to inaugurate the first oil production from an inland basin in Nigeria by Orient Petroleum and Refinery Company plc.

29. While in Anambra state, Mr President should avoid the controversial precincts of the drunken brewery giant, SABmiller.

Chudi Offodile
http://elombah.com/index.php/special-reports/12438-governor-peter-obi-and-the-sabmiller-scandal-the-issues-raised-by-chudi-offodile

Anambra youths must protest against a monumental fraud called Peter obi, it's about time he is stoned and embarrassed at any public function. This epitome of deceit won his first election by campaigning that all his kids will school in Anambra while he is governor but I doubt if his kids has neared the state in his 8 year locust rule

so this op was the yorubest constituting public nuisance. Extend his ban please

2014 Chukwuma Soludo Insha Allah

ba7man: Anyone against this move is truely an enemy of progress regardless of tribe.

It does make a lot of sense now for eastern travellers. Extra points for G.E.J's administration.

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wow, this account was definetly hacked

[quote author=mr_king]Lagos Airport is still second to none!!! I don't think Enugu is viable!! Rather than establish international Airport here and there, Federal Government should try as much to revamp Lagos Airport to meet world standard!![/quote]^


Fool! Don't worry, very soon you will have to fly into Enugu before connecting a flight to Lagos.

Okoro2015: FTC on this milestone achievement of the old eastern region. GEJ till 2019!

Soludo or no GEJ!

Bliss4Lyfe: The fear of Soludo is the begining of wisdom.

Nothing can stop Soludo from govt house

way to go. let me see how these folks will win a Soludo with his current fame at the elections. Atiku and PDM should capitalize on this opportunity. If Ifeanyi Uba can pull any weight, with Labor Party, Ngige win APGA/Peter Obi/Akunyili with an Amala party, Soludo can surely win the polls with PDM

here were indications yesterday that the
disqualification of the former Governor of the
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) , Prof. Charles
Soludo, along with five other aspirants by the
screening panel of the All Progressives Grand
Alliance (APGA) may have been due to external
pressures.
Soludo's travails came just as two other
successful aspirants from the Anambra North,
Chief John Okechukwu Emeka and Chief Willie
Obiano, emerged as the new front-runners of
the party’s governorship ticket.
The revelations following the outcome of the
APGA Gubernatorial Screening Panel, which last
Friday declined to clear six of the aspirants,
including Soludo, showed that there were very
powerful forces behind his ouster.
The reasons, the panel adduced for not
clearing the aspirants, ranged from non-
presentation voters card, and party
membership card.
Also, an appeal panel headed by Chief Tony
Ojeilo, at the end its sitting on Saturday, held
that the submissions made by the aspirants
have been dismissed for lack of merit.
However, sources at APGA spoke on some
intrigues and high-level maneuvering aimed at
stopping Soludo from emerging as the party's
governorship candidate.
The source traced the former CBN governor's
travail to his former party, the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), where it said Soludo
had been marked out of the state governorship
contest before he decided to seek an
alternative platform in APGA.
"Certain elements are not comfortable with the
growing profile of Soludo, especially his
fraternisation with a former Vice-President.
They are afraid that if Soludo is allowed to
emerge APGA candidate and may be win the
Anambra governorship election, he may sell
out during the 2015 presidential election," he
said.
THISDAY gathered that part of the calculations
was that the next governor of Anambra State
would most certainly be the most influential in
the South-east, since the office would not be
vacant until after 2015 elections.
It was alleged that the same forces that had
stood against Soludo's candidacy in the PDP
also followed him to APGA with the willing
support of some party bigwigs.
According to associates of Soludo, who
confirmed the scheming, even before the
commencement of the party's screening, the
aspirant was pressurised to step down.
For instance, the former CBN governor was
said to have received telephone calls from
some top leaders of APGA, urging his to
jettison his governorship bid, a plea he turned
down on the grounds that he could not find
any good reason to do that.
THISDAY gathered at the weekend, that the
embittered former governorship candidate of
the PDP was weighing several options and may
be reconsidering his earlier promise not to
dump APGA for another party.
Meanwhile, two of the APGA governorship
aspirants, who scaled through last weekend's
screening exercise, a former Minister of Water
Transport, Mr. John Okechukwu Emeka, and a
former Executive Director with Fidelity Bank
Plc, Chief Willie Obiano, were now touted as
leading the pack of other five aspirants ahead
of the party's primaries slated for August 26.
Emaka recently received a boost from an
endorsement by about 16 communities in his
home base, Anambra North senatorial district,
while Obiano was said to have the tacit
support of the state Governor, Peter Obi.
In a statement signed by the Presidents-
General of the communities, which included,
Ifite Anam, Umueru Anam, Ukwala, Owelle,
Inoma, Olumbanasa, Mkpunando, Umuaba
Arum, Emewu Abuleti,Aguleri, Nzam, Nando,
Igabariam, Enugwu-Otu and Ezi-Awam, the
communities said: "It is in the interest of their
various communities which have longed
suffered underdevelopment to take a stand in
the forthcoming gubernatorial elections.
"In the light of these, we hereby express our
whole-hearted support for the candidature of
Mr. John Okechukwu Emeka, former Minister
of Water Transport, whom our investigations
revealed to be an inspirational leader and rally
point of our people."

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/anambra-guber-poll-soludo-lost-out-to-underground-scheming/156639/